If your original piercing is held in with balls, simply unscrew one and slide it out. It might be screwed in a little tight, so consider going back to the piercer to have them do it.
Clean your hands, disinfect the area and jewellery, and line up the bar with the hole before pushing it cleanly through. You may need to pull your nose down a little to get it right, or it may take a few goes to find the hole.
The same rules apply for other kinds of rings or bars, too. If you have horseshoe-type septum jewellery, you should be able to hide the piercing for school, work, or hanging out with your nana. There are different methods so consult your piercer, but usually you just pull your mouth skin down so the piercing is more visible; then push the balls up until the jewellery goes into your nose.
This will get easier the older the piercing is and the less swollen your nose is. Consult your piercer, but many people recommend waiting between four and six months before starting to stretch. You should then wait a couple of months between gauges, too. There are different methods, but most common is to with clean hands, disinfected jewellery, and a clean nose massage your septum with jojoba or other oil.
Then, you should get an insertion pin one or two gauges up from your initial jewellery — i. You should push the pin through your septum, then line the new plug with the biggest end of the pin, pushing the pin out with the jewellery and effectively replacing it.
Do not go up more than a mm every month or two, and listen to your body. How To. Celebrity News. Now You Know. Latest Beauty. Customize Select the topics that interest you:.
Beauty Tips. Celebrity Style. Street Style. Book Swipe Shop. Your nose has a lot of cartilage, and just above the place where a septum piercing is best inserted is a piece of tough cartilage. You can get the septum pierced through the cartilage, but it will increase both the pain of the piercing and the time taken to heal.
To prevent a longer healing time, you should have your piercer examine your nose before you decide for sure to get the septum piercing. It just takes a few simple steps to care for your septum piercing while it heals. Keeping it clean by following proper aftercare will help your piercing heal faster and avoid it from becoming irritated or infected and taking longer to heal. Firstly, clean the area of the piercing, including the jewelry, using the cleaning tips further down this article. It used to be advised to twist the jewelry in piercings to help the hole heal, but that actually causes you to rip and irritate the tissue.
Twisting will cause your healing times to increase. A lot of people get septum piercings because they think they are easy to hide, and they can be. If you have to flip, leave it flipped up for a while before moving it again.
You may want to just leave the jewelry flipped up for most of the healing period if you are concerned about it being seen. You can actually reduce your septum piercing healing time by keeping yourself healthy in general.
A fresh piercing is like any wound; your body needs to be healthy in order to devote enough energy to heal itself. So take care of yourself. Cleaning a septum piercing is relatively easy. You just need to keep some saline solution handy and squirt both sides of the piercing where the piercing needle entered and where it exited.
Alternately, you can fill a short cup or small bowl with the saline and dip the end of your nose into it. The cleaning solution helps to loosen any crust that forms around the piercing, as well as disinfecting the area and reducing bacteria. You should be able to purchase aftercare saline right at the piercing studio when you get your septum pierced.
Alternatively, you can buy it online, or you can make your own from distilled water and sea salt to keep the overall cost of your septum piercing down.
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